Little Girl Twirling Quotes

#1. Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.
Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

Mary O'Hara

#2. A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

Noam Chomsky

#3. I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

Xavier Dolan

#4. The idea that athleticism was suddenly inversely proportional to intellect was never a cause of bigotry, but rather a result of it.

David Epstein

#5. Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#6. The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Marilyn Hacker

#7. It's the diary that makes the man.

George Grossmith

#8. Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.

Roger Scruton

#9. I just stood their frozen, waiting for my opportunity to strike.

Rachel Higginson

#10. Power unused is power useless.

Gloria Feldt

#11. Imagine," she said, after registering, "a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it'll be sexy."
"You'll be so easy," Rashmi said. "Would you like-ah to order-ah the spa-ghe-tti? 'Oh, do me, Marco!

Stephanie Perkins

#12. I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors ... and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.

Elizabeth Von Arnim